grub and big hd

[Andreas Müller]

Hallo all,

I'm currently trying to get grub to work with my hd, but there's no go.
I've tried grub 0.95-1mdk with a mandrake distro and
grub-0.95-2.i386.rpm with a redhat distro. Unfortunatly I always get the
error 18: selected cylinder exceeds max supported by BIOS.

I've searched the archives, but I did not find anything, that could help
me. I suppose that this error is due to a bug in grub.

I have a 160GB hd, the BIOS only sees 8455MB. I'm using the windows NT
loader as my primary loader and then grub in one of the partition's boot
sectors. My hd layout is like this:

/dev/hda1   *           1        1306    10490413+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1307       19457   145797907+   5  Erweiterte
/dev/hda5            1307        1408      819283+  82  Linux Swap
/dev/hda6            1409        1416       64228+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            1417        3375    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hda8            3376        3383       64228+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9            3384        5342    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hda10           5343       17743    99611001    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda11          17744       19457    13767673+   b  W95 FAT32

I'm getting the same error, when installing grub to /dev/hda6 and
/dev/hda8 (these are my boot partitions one is mdk the other is rh).
I'm also capable to boot my mandrake distro form hda7/hda8 using lilo.
I'd prefer to use grub, because it's easier to use wehn testing a kernel
or updating a kernel.

Is there any solution to this problem? Tell me which further information
is needed.

Thanx in advance,

Andreas